Concept – if possible, make them available, one per player, at the old price for a couple of weeks (enough time for anyone to get the flezz together) if they want to keep people from being screwed. This would also lower the resale value. (I already have it on seven alts btw)

I upvote getting rid of downvoting, at least until a better solution is found. One step should be some sort of minimum character activity before voting. This is probably going to sound lousy, but maybe you have to finish ep.1 before you can vote?